Business first; pleasure afterwards.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?